corktina: You can't ignore maintenence and depreciation costs when assessing car versus train. Measuring the "cost" as just the fuel cost (as did the Sunday Times last week) is just wrong. Car servicing and tyre wear are pretty directly related to mileage, and don't tell me that when you come to trade in your car that the price you get will be the same isrrespective of whether it has 30,000 or 60,000 on the clock.
Also in an earlier post you mentioned shunting moves. Moving a train from one platform to another at Cork should be a simple and inexpensive matter, especially as no running-round would be required, and hence no shunter to uncouple and re-couple the locomotive.
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